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Accountants' truth: knowledge and ethics in the financial world

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2009 Oxford University Press OxfordDescription: x, 198 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199547142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.9652 G4A2
Summary: This important book concludes that accountants' technical discourse undermines their ethical reasoning by obscuring the ways in which accounting decisions must be thought through in practice. Accountants with particular ethical perspectives more readily understand and construct particular types of knowledge, so the two issues of knowledge and of ethics are inseparable. Increasingly technical accounting rules can therefore counterproductive. Instead, our best approach to avoiding future scandals is to redefine and reinvigorate professional ethics in the financial world. (http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Accounting/?view=usa&ci=9780199547142)
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This important book concludes that accountants' technical discourse undermines their ethical reasoning by obscuring the ways in which accounting decisions must be thought through in practice. Accountants with particular ethical perspectives more readily understand and construct particular types of knowledge, so the two issues of knowledge and of ethics are inseparable. Increasingly technical accounting rules can therefore counterproductive. Instead, our best approach to avoiding future scandals is to redefine and reinvigorate professional ethics in the financial world. (http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Accounting/?view=usa&ci=9780199547142)

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